Bug 507220 - Allow custom sorting for tags in the tag manager
Summary: Allow custom sorting for tags in the tag manager
Status: REPORTED
Alias: None
Product: digikam
Classification: Applications
Component: Tags-Manager (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: 8.7.0
Platform: Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Digikam Developers
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Reported: 2025-07-19 09:33 UTC by 935350079
Modified: 2025-07-19 09:44 UTC (History)
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Description 935350079 2025-07-19 09:33:09 UTC
WISH: I wish the “Tag Tree” shown in the sidebar of the main interface and the Tag Manager could be sorted by the user. 

Currently, tags in the "Tag Tree" are only automatically alphabetized. The only way to manage tags is to set parent tags (tags group), which prevents users to search tags more efficiently and adversely affects the efficiency of photo organization.

CASES: 
*For example, tags/parent tags that are logically similar may be located at the beginning and end of the tag tree due to alphabetical ordering. 
*Commonly used tags may be “buried” in a mass of similar tags. Although you can find it with a text search, it's not convenient and requires you to “remember it” first.
*The default tag sorting often doesn't match the user's “working order” when tagging. This makes it harder for the user and makes it easier to miss/duplicate/misuse tags.
*Although it is not impossible for users to “customize the order of tags”, such as adding numbers in front of tags (like"01-Dog" "02-Cat"), this makes the tag management view more cumbersome and unattractive.

I wish users could be able to manually sort the tags. Currently, the “lack of sorting in the tag tree” is the main factor that affects my experience with digikam.